Kari Chisholm

Kari Chisholm (born July 2, 1973) is an American political consultant and sports commentator based in Portland, Oregon. He became known for commentary on the Heisman Trophy, and his now-defunct site StiffArmTrophy.com correctly predicted the winner of the trophy every year from 2002 to 2012. He is the co-founder and publisher of BlueOregon, a defunct blog.

Career Political consultancy and BlueOregon In 2004, Chisholm, Jeff Alworth, and Jesse Cornett co-founded BlueOregon, a progressive blog that covered the politics of the U.S. state of Oregon. Chisholm was one of the site's three main editors and was described as the "den mother of the political blog" by the Willamette Week. Chisholm stated that he and other tech-savvy activists wanted smaller regional political blogs like BlueOregon to play as a prominent a role at the state level as large blogs already did at the national level.

By 2006 the site was the top-read Oregon political blog, with 3,000 to 4,000 readers a day around election season. By 2010, the site featured more than 30 regular contributors, and Chisholm and other editors were regularly quoted in local political stories by The Oregonian, the state's largest newspaper.

During this period of growth for BlueOregon, Chisholm served as a political consultant and operated website development company Mandate Media, which provided digital services to U.S. Senator Ron Wyden and Gov. Ted Kulongoski, and to the campaigns of then-U.S. Senate candidate Jeff Merkley, then-secretary of state candidate Kate Brown, then-congressional candidate Kurt Schrader, and then-Portland mayoral candidate Sam Adams. "It's pretty transparent that [BlueOregon] is being used as window dressing and as a mouthpiece for the Merkley campaign," Weigler told The Oregonian.

Between 2006 and 2011, Chisholm was paid nearly $400,000 by state and local Democratic candidates.

In 2023 Chisholm was selected to serve on a committee to draft the district lines which would form the geographic basis of Portland's new form of government.

Personal life He lives in Portland, Oregon with his wife and their son.